Resident Evil 2 Director Hideki Kamiya Calls for a 'Non-Scary Mode' So He Can Enjoy Requiem's Puzzles and Combat Without

Hideki Kamiya, the legendary director behind fan-favorite games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, is calling for a "non-scary mode" for Resident Evil Requiem. The director — who also directed the original Resident Evil 2, by the way! — has been filmed talking to his team as they watch a colleague spend a little quality time with Leon S. Kennedy in the latest Resident Evil game. In the brief video uploaded to his new studio's Twitter/X account, we see a dev playing Requiem, surrounded by colleagues, including Kamiya. "I've been saying for forever, they should make a 'non-scary' mode," Kamiya says, to which someone replies: "That would completely defeat the concept of the game, though…" We’re all playing Resident Evil Requiem!Kamiya—who hates horror games—is doing his usual grumbling 🤭🍀 pic.twitter.com/ocbW8tsnDR "Look, I just want to enjoy the puzzles!" he added. "The puzzles and the combat. I don't need the scary stuff…" It was, in fact, Kamiya's Resident Evil 2 that gave us rookie cop Leon in the first place; the fictional cop was just 21 years old when the events of the second game took place. Now, 28 years later, Leon is back, and both he and Kamiya are in their fifties now. Whi

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